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Global Inequalities In The Anthropocene (GEOG20011)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
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Inequality is a global phenomenon – something widely found to be growing within and between nations. This subject takes a critical geographic perspective, focused on understanding the variety of scales at which inequality appears. It looks beneath national comparative statistics on global inequality to (1) investigate the ways in which inequality is generated and materially experienced in selected societies, social groups and places, and (2) analyse how new forms and conditions of inequality may be emerging with the advent of conditions termed the Anthropocene (an epoch in which environmental conditions on our planet are profoundly influenced by human action). The subject examines ideas of justice that propose ways of reducing inequality, in the light of processes generating a variety of inequalities at different scales, and for different social groups and places. Examples will be drawn from urban, regional, neighbourhood and national contexts in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Intended learning outcomes
At the successful completion of this subject, students will have:
- Knowledge of perspectives on inequality that take into account variations between places and the reasons for this, and the way that inequalities materialise at different scales
- Research skills to enable the investigation of the complex causes of inequality and how these are experienced and understood
- Understanding of some place-specific experiences of inequality
Generic skills
Upon successful completion of this subject, students will have skills in:
- reading, writing and speaking in theoretically-aware and comparative ways
- conducting library searches for relevant, critical literatures
- using a case study approach to explore processes and problems situated in particular contexts, relating data and information to conceptual arguments
Last updated: 2 November 2024